`` With no strong men and no parliament to dispute his will, he was the government ''.

Actually, the dispute between Parker and the society of his time, both ecclesiastical and social, was a real one, a bitter one.

Some of the General Semantics tradition was continued by Samuel I. Hayakawa, who had a dispute with Korzybski.

) After the dispute over Arianism became politicized and a general solution to the divisiveness was sought — with a great majority holding to the Trinitarian position — the Arian position was officially declared heterodox.

At that time, the ENIAC was considered to be the first computer in the modern sense, but in 1973 a U. S. District Court invalidated the ENIAC patent and concluded that the ENIAC inventors had derived the subject matter of the electronic digital computer from Atanasoff ( see Patent dispute ).

The dispute over Tweeddale and Teviotdale does not appear to have damaged relations between Alexander and David, although it was unpopular in some quarters.

The years were marked by persecution of the followers of the Paulician and Bogomil heresies — one of his last acts was to publicly burn at the stake Basil, a Bogomil leader, with whom he had engaged in a theological dispute.

But if every historian were to assert that Queen Elizabeth was observed walking around happy and healthy after her funeral, and then interpreted that to mean that they had risen from the dead, then we'd have reason to appeal to natural laws in order to dispute their interpretation.

In October 1704, after the ships had parted ways because of a dispute between Stradling and Dampier, the Cinque Ports was brought by Stradling to an island that is today known as Robinson Crusoe Island in the uninhabited archipelago of Juan Fernández off the coast of Chile for a mid-expedition restocking of supplies and fresh water.

Politically, Abadan was often the subject of dispute between the nearby states ; in 1847, Persia acquired it, in which state Abadan has remained since.

The conflict was centered on Carnegie Steel's main plant in Homestead, Pennsylvania, and grew out of a dispute between the National Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers of the United States and the Carnegie Steel Company.

His new firm was initially called Horch Automobil-Werke GmbH, but following a legal dispute over the Horch name, he decided to make another automobile company.

Scholars dispute whether and how much Plato's story or account was inspired by older traditions.

Like all early Germanic rulers, he was heavily involved in ecclesiastical disputes ; in 895, at the Diet of Tribur, he presided over a dispute between the Episcopal sees of Bremen, Hamburg and Cologne over jurisdictional authority, which saw Bremen and Hamburg remain a combined see, independent of the see of Cologne.

There is a dispute concerning Napoleon's age because of this requirement ; the emperor is known to have altered the civic records at Ajaccio concerning himself and it is possible that he was born in Corte in 1768 when his father was there on business.

The sovereignty over Andkhui, Shibarghan, Saripul and Maimana was in dispute between Bukhara and Kabul until settled by the Anglo-Russian agreement of 1873 in favour of the Afghan claim.

Casimir was seeking allies over the dispute of Pomerania with the Knights.

There was much dispute about the questionability of the reason why there was another AMD treaty when one had failed not many years before.

A territorial dispute with Mali was mediated by Ghana and Nigeria, which has led to lessening of tensions between the two nations.

Burundi and Rwanda dispute sections of border on the Akanyaru / Kanyaru and the Kagera / Nyabarongo rivers, which have changed course since the 1960s, when the boundary was delimited ; cross-border conflicts among Tutsi, Hutu, other ethnic groups, associated political rebels, armed gangs, and various government forces persist in the Great Lakes region.

No person shall be referred to a position the filling of which will aid directly or indirectly in filling a job which ( 1 ) is vacant because the former occupant is on strike or is being locked out in the course of a labor dispute, or ( 2 ) the filling of which is an issue in a labor dispute.

With respect to positions not covered by subparagraph ( 1 ) or ( 2 ) of this paragraph, any individual may be referred to a place of employment in which a labor dispute exists, provided he is given written notice of such dispute prior to or at the time of his referral.

Some states dispute the international acceptance of the right of their deposed monarchs to be referred to by their former title.

In the late 19th century, in a dispute between supporters of the adequacy of natural selection and those who held for inheritance of acquired characters, one of the arguments made repeatedly by Herbert Spencer, and followed by others, depended on what Spencer referred to as co-adaptation of co-operative parts, as in: " We come now to Professor Weismann's endeavour to disprove my second thesis — that it is impossible to explain by natural selection alone the co-adaptation of co-operative parts.

It might also give an advisory opinion on any dispute or question referred to it by the Council or the Assembly.

The Allied powers referred the problem of Upper Silesia to the League after they had been unable to resolve the territorial dispute.

Territorial disputes with Colombia over the Archipelago de San Andres y Providencia and Quita Sueno Bank ; with respect to the maritime boundary question in the Golfo de Fonseca, the ICJ referred to the line determined by the 1900 Honduras-Nicaragua Mixed Boundary Commission and advised that some tripartite resolution among El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua likely would be required ; maritime boundary dispute with Honduras in the Caribbean Sea ; Nicaragua is sovereign over the Rio San Juan, and by treaty Costa Rica has the right to navigate over part of the river with ' objects of commerce '.

The Court also issued " advisory opinions ", which arose from Article 14 of the Covenant creating the Court, which provided " The Court may also give an advisory opinion upon any dispute referred to it by the Council or Assembly ", which Goodrich interprets as indicating that the drafters intended a purely advisory capacity for the Court, not a binding one.

Self-determination is referred to in the Falkland Islands Constitution and is a factor in the Falkland Islands sovereignty dispute.

Agamemnon, unwilling to undertake the invidious duty of deciding between the two competitors, referred the dispute to the decision of the Trojan prisoners, inquiring of them which of the two heroes had done most harm to the Trojans.

Valhalla is referenced at length in the Poetic Edda poem Grímnismál, and Helgakviða Hundingsbana II, while Valhalla receives lesser direct references in stanza 33 of the Völuspá, where the god Baldr's death is referred to as the " woe of Valhalla ", and in stanzas 1 to 3 of Hyndluljóð, where the goddess Freyja states her intention of riding to Valhalla with Hyndla, in an effort to help Óttar, as well as in stanzas 6 through 7, where Valhalla is mentioned again during a dispute between the two.

He wished to see all important matters of dispute referred to Rome ; appeals were to be addressed to himself ; the centralization of ecclesiastical government in Rome naturally involved a curtailment of the powers of bishops.

Several names for the site are used in the early records, including Chesters on Caudley, Little Chesters, the Bower, and Chesterholm ; the altar found in 1914 confirmed that the true Roman name for the site was " Vindolanda ", which had been in dispute as one early source referred to it as " Vindolana ".

* September – The dispute between Johann Reuchlin and Johannes Pfefferkorn, relative to the Talmud and other Jewish books, is referred to Pope Leo X.

Following a long dispute over whether Sydney or Melbourne should be the national capital, a compromise was reached: the new capital would be built in New South Wales, so long as it was at least from Sydney, with Melbourne to be the temporary seat of government ( but not referred to as the " capital ") while the new capital was built.

The dispute was referred to the Spartans, who eventually awarded possession of the island to Athens on the strength of the case that Solon put to them.

These conflicts included a customs dispute with Austria-Hungary beginning in 1906 ( commonly referred to as the " Pig War "), the Bosnian crisis of 1908 – 1909 in which Serbia assumed an attitude of protest over Austria-Hungary's annexation of Bosnia-Herzegovina ( ending in Serbian acquiescence without compensation in March 1909 ), and finally the two Balkan Wars of 1912 – 1913 in which Serbia conquered Macedonia and Kosovo from the Ottoman Empire.

He consistently maintained that the dispute with Egypt should be referred to the United Nations.

Normally a dispute such as this would be referred to the International Court of Justice or the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea for an impartial decision, but the Australian government had withdrawn itself from these international jurisdictions ( solely on matters relating to maritime boundaries ) shortly before Timorese independence.

On 6 December 1845, Mitchel's article " Oregon — Ireland " referred to the dispute then pending between England and America about Oregon.

Their legal dispute resulted in important precedent regarding international custody issues, followed widely in the courts of the U. S. and other countries, sometimes referred to as the " settled purpose " doctrine: In Re Bates, No. CA 122-89, High Court of Justice, Family Div ' l Ct. Royal Courts of Justice, United Kingdom ( 1989 ).

* Persian Gulf, a body of water sometimes controversially referred to as the Arabian Gulf or The Gulf by some Arab countries ( see also Persian Gulf naming dispute )